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The Tampakan gold and copper deposit is situated in the mountains surrounding the town Tampakan in the South Cotabato province in the Philippines. [5] The deposit was discovered in November 1990 by the Australian company Western Mining Corporation (WMC), who acquired mining rights in Tampakan through a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) with the Philippine government. [6]
Poverty incidence of Tampakan 10 20 30 40 50 2000 49.12 2003 27.52 2006 31.40 2009 33.05 2012 37.26 2015 36.55 2018 30.90 2021 18.25 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority There is a proposed copper and gold mine in Tampakan. Once approved for operations, the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project will be the largest in the Philippines and among the largest copper mines in the world. The local ...
The Kalu Ganga Dam is a large gravity dam, and the second vital component of the larger and more complex Moragahakanda — Kalu Ganga Project across the Kalu Ganga at Pallegama, in the Matale District of Sri Lanka. The Kalu Ganga is a tributary of the Amban Ganga which in turn is a tributary of the Mahaweli River, the longest river in Sri Lanka.
Tata reported that “the fishing potential of the Gulf of Kutch is significant,” but there were “no local fishing activities in the coastal waters fronting the project.” The “nearest small fishing community,” it said, was located “outside the project area.” This came as a surprise to Budha Ismail Jam.
Sobadhanavi Power Station is a 350MW LNG-fired combined cycle power station located in Kerawalapitiya, Sri Lanka. The first phase of 220MW was commissioned on 28 August 2024, [1] consisting of a single F-class gas turbine manufactured by Siemens Energy. The second phase in anticipated to be completed by early 2025. [2]
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
The Hinatuan Mine (Tagana-an Nickel Project) is located on Hinatuan Island, Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte and operated by Hinatuan Mining Corporation. [4] [5] The Cagdianao Mine, with the Valencia Pit and adjacent Boa Pit in Cagdianao, Dinagat covers 249.48 square kilometers, was acquired in 1998 and is operated by the Cagdianao Mining Corporation.
More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vijayan Series occur in the eastern and ...